The Resurrection / Marten van Heemskerck
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- Accession Number
- 1983/2.249
- Title
- The Resurrection
- Artist
- Marten van Heemskerck
- Artist Nationality
- Dutch
- Artist Life Dates
- 1498-1574
- Medium and Support
- etching on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1548-1574
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Netherlands (nation)
- North Holland (province)
- Haarlem (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Netherlands (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- North Holland (province)
- Creation Place 4
- Haarlem (inhabited place)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Mannerist
- Inscription
- In plate, l.r.: Martinus Heemsker
- Dimensions
- 21.2 cm x 14.1 cm (8 3/8 in. x 5 9/16 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- A muscular figure surrounded by an aureole of light steps down from a plain rectangular tomb. Six soldiers, depicted in a variety of complex postures, recoil from the figure in shock.
- Subject Matter
- This etching depicts Christ rising miraculously to life after his crucifixion. He steps off the lid of his tomb engulfed in an explosion of light, causing consternation among the six soldiers charged with guarding his body.
- The print, made after a drawing by the artist dated 1548, reveals the influence of both ancient Hellenistic art and sixteenth-century Italian Mannerism upon van Heemskerck's work. The artist resided in Rome from 1532 until 1536 or 1537, where he studied the city's famous monuments and artworks and produced numerous drawings after them. From this trove of drawings he found inspiration for many of the paintings and hundreds of prints that he produced over the rest of his long and successful career in the Dutch city of Haarlem. In this work the artist creatively adapted the Laocoon, one of the most celebrated ancient sculptures displayed in Rome, for the poses of the figures.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 445 x 576
- File Size
- 40 KB
- Record
- 1983/2.249
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"The Resurrection; Marten van Heemskerck." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.249/1983_2.249.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.